Uninhabited island - Quiz
Uninhabited island
  • 1. What is the largest uninhabited island in the world?
A) Clipperton Island
B) Isle Royale
C) Bouvet Island
D) Devon Island
  • 2. What is the reason why most of the largest uninhabited islands are deserted?
A) Lack of wildlife
B) Volcanic activity
C) Freezing climate
D) Tidal waves
  • 3. What can occasionally reach fresh water on small coral atolls or islands?
A) A natural river
B) A well
C) An underground stream
D) Rainwater collection
  • 4. What archaic meaning does the adjective 'desert' have in 'desert island'?
A) Having hot sand and dunes
B) Desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied
C) Lacking any vegetation
D) Covered entirely in ice
  • 5. What type of wildlife species find havens on desert islands due to being partly sheltered from humans?
A) Tropical rainforest apes
B) Large land mammals
C) Sea turtles and ground-nesting seabirds
D) Freshwater fish
  • 6. What accumulates on the beaches of desert islands from the sea?
A) Volcanic ash and debris
B) Precious gems and metals
C) Wreckage from pirate ships
D) Tons of waste from far away countries
  • 7. Which island is known as 'Snake Island'?
A) Ilha da Queimada Grande
B) Clipperton Island
C) Tetepare Island
D) Astola Island
  • 8. What is the world's most remote island according to the text?
A) Kaffeklubben Island
B) Amatignak Island
C) Bouvet Island
D) Ball's Pyramid
  • 9. Who wrote the novel Robinson Crusoe published in 1719?
A) H. G. Wells
B) William Shakespeare
C) Henry Neville
D) Daniel Defoe
  • 10. Which sailor is likely to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe?
A) Tom Neale
B) Simon Ockley
C) Edward Pococke
D) Alexander Selkirk
  • 11. What is the name of Robinson Crusoe's personal assistant in the novel?
A) Man Friday
B) Kamil
C) Prospero
D) Hayy
  • 12. Who wrote the 1610–11 play The Tempest which uses a desert island setting?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Ibn Tufail
C) Daniel Defoe
D) Henry Neville
  • 13. What is the title of the 1668 book by Henry Neville about a man shipwrecked with three women?
A) The Isle of Pines
B) Theologus Autodidactus
C) Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
D) The Aspiring Naturalist
  • 14. Who voluntarily spent 16 years in three sessions living alone on the island of Suwarrow?
A) Robert Boyle
B) Alexander Selkirk
C) Edward Pococke
D) Daniel Defoe
E) Tom Neale
  • 15. What is the major theme of both Lord of the Flies and The Beach mentioned in the text?
A) Creation of a utopian society
B) Peaceful isolation and meditation
C) Recreation of society's comforts
D) Regression into savagery
  • 16. In the book Kensuke's Kingdom, what animal does Kensuke stay on the island to defend?
A) Sea turtles
B) Ground-nesting seabirds
C) Orangutans
D) Penguins
  • 17. How are desert island jokes conventionally depicted in gag cartoons?
A) As endless flat deserts with no vegetation
B) As massive tropical jungles with active volcanoes
C) Just a few yards across with a single palm tree
D) As frozen tundras surrounded by icebergs
  • 18. Which novel was written by Ibn Tufail?
A) The Isle of Pines
B) Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
C) Theologus Autodidactus
D) The Aspiring Naturalist
  • 19. Who wrote Theologus Autodidactus?
A) Ibn Tufail
B) Ibn al-Nafis
C) Daniel Defoe
D) Robert Boyle
  • 20. What is the northernmost undisputed point of land on Earth?
A) Bouvet Island
B) Kaffeklubben Island
C) Amatignak Island
D) Devon Island
  • 21. What type of ship was the Essex?
A) American whaler
B) Spanish galleon
C) British warship
D) French merchant ship
  • 22. In what year did the crew of the Essex spend time on Henderson Island?
A) 1815
B) 1820
C) 1876
D) 1875
  • 23. What is the nationality of Henderson Island mentioned in the text?
A) French
B) American
C) Spanish
D) British
  • 24. What crucial resource did the crew of the Essex find on Henderson Island?
A) A deep underground cave
B) An abandoned well
C) A small freshwater spring
D) A large river
  • 25. How long did it take for the crew of the Essex to deplete the island's resources?
A) Four months
B) One year
C) One week
D) Seven months
  • 26. How many men from the Essex decided to remain on Henderson Island?
A) Four
B) Three
C) One
D) Seven
  • 27. How long did the three men who stayed on Henderson Island survive there before rescue?
A) Four months
B) Two years
C) Seven months
D) One week
  • 28. What was the name of the ship whose survivors spent seven months on a French island?
A) Bounty
B) Essex
C) Titanic
D) Strathmore
  • 29. How long did the survivors of the Strathmore survive on the island?
A) Four months
B) Seven months
C) One year
D) One week
  • 30. During which years did the Strathmore survivors stay on the island?
A) 1875 to 1876
B) 1850 to 1851
C) 1880 to 1881
D) 1820 to 1821
  • 31. To which country do the Crozet Islands belong, according to the text?
A) Britain
B) Spain
C) France
D) United States
  • 32. Besides birds and fish, what plant food did the Strathmore survivors eat?
A) Tropical fruits
B) Leafy greens
C) Root vegetables
D) Cereal grains
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